Dr. Ram Charan is an active advisor to CEOs of Fortune 100 companies and emerging venture capital funded firms. He is the author of Boards at Work; lead co-author of Every Business is a Growth Business and Business Acumen, a customized book for Ford Motor Company. BusinessWeek named him the number two resource for in-house corporate executive development programs in the U.S. Formerly on the faculty at Harvard Business School and Northwestern University, he has won Best Teacher awards at Northwestern, G.E. and the 1997 Best Teacher Award at the Wharton School's Life Insurance Institute.